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Can NPM monitor the DNS name as well as the ip address?

Hi - got a few pc's running windows server 2008. We only monitor the IP currently however we now have a need to monitor the DNS name as well. Is this at all possible? Thank you

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ecklerwr1

You sure can as long as your NPM can resolve the names through DNS. You can test by either trying to add the nodes by name or by going to the command line from your NPM machine and trying to ping by name to make sure DNS is working from your NPM. You could have a problem with reverse DNS lookups if you added the nodes by IP before and you are not seeing the DNS names on your nodes. You can also test this by going to a command prompt and doing:

nslookup IPAddress

You should get back the DNS name from your DNS server.

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ecklerwr1

nslookup IPAddress

You should get back the DNS name from your DNS server.